Improvement in measuring-strips for rolled fabrics



ApBQHAYDEN. Measuring-Spip for Rolled-Fabrics.

No. 219,"47o vPmentecl Sept. 9, 1879.

NJETERSA PHOTaLITnoGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED S'rnrnsPA'rnNr OFFICE.

AUSTIN B. HAYDEN, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO LEONARD A. WATSON, OF ASHTABULA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEASURlNG-STRIPS FOR R'OLLED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,470, dated September 9, 1879; application filed Juiye, 1879.

method of packaging and measuring fabrics described in the patent of E. Morgan, No. 111,235; but my said improvement is more especially adapted to measuring ribbons, silks, fine linens, and other fabrics, which are either White or have light, bright, or delicate colors.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view, in elevation, of a roll of rib- V bon and the wrapping-paper of the same partly unrolled, and in which A indicates the wrapper, and B the ribbon.

Fig. 2 represents, in plan, a section or piece of my improved wrapper, showing the divisions and notation-symbols of the mensurator cut or punched through the same.

Fig. 3 represents a series of modified forms of punching the graduation and notation marks `upon the mensnratin g strip or wrapper, and in which a. shows a punched numeral with .double and single lines of punch-holes. I) shows a punched numeral composed of single lines of punch-holes. c sho'ws a division or graduation mark composed of a single line of punched holes. 'z'. shows a numeral indented into the surface of the paper. d, e, and f show different shapes of punch-holes to represent graduating-divisions, which, as well as the `holes inthe notation -symbols, may be varied in shape to adapt them` to special conditions of material, or to suit the taste of /the constructer ofthe self-measuring wrapper or strip.

The stamping maybe done with embossing-dies, and the perforating may be done with perforating punches and dies, or other suitable cutting-instruments employed in the arts for such purposes, thus avoiding the use of inks or coloring-matter that might sully a fabric if of a white, light, or bright color.

As the stamping and punching of marks and characters on or in paper are so well known in the arts, I shall not describe either of, them here.

The perforations in the measuring strip or wrapper permit the tint of the fabric to be seen'through them, and dispense with the unfastening and opening of the roll for that purpose, thus both saving labor and diminishing the liability of the fabric to become soiled and crumpled in the process of inspection.

If deemed advisable, a series of inspectionorilices may be specially punched in the wrapper, and they may be of such size and form as u is deemed most suitable.

In making up a package of ribbon espe cially, I prefer to roll the fabric inside of the graduated and measured wrapping-paper, instead of on the outside, as has heretofore been the practice, in which case the wrapper should have its graduated side turned outward that the length of the fabric may be seen without unfastening or unrolling the package.

Among the advantages of this method of wrapping np the package is, that the outer end of the fabric, which, `when coiled on the outside of thewrapper, is exposed to the fadin g action of light, and to being soiled, is by this improvement covered and protected by the wrapper which is on its outside.

This graduated. wrapper is adapted to use as both a cover and measure of fabrics of less than its own width, and also as a measuringstrip only of fabrics of greater width than itself.

What I claim as my invention is l. The arrangement of a measuring-wrapper on the outside of fabrics narrower than itself' coiled into rolls, whereby the outer coil ofthe fabric is as effectively covered by the Wrapper as the inner coils, and the length of fabric in the coil is shown without unfastening and opening the package, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with packaged fab- I by both the length and the tint of the packrics, of a measuring strip or Wrapper having -`aged fabric may be seen Without opening the its graduation or notation marks stamped orv package7 substantially as described. perforated, to protect fabrics ot' light or deli- I A AUSTIN B. HAYDEN. cate colors against boing sullied or dei'aced by l Witnesses: marks, substantially as described. l HORACE T. 000K,

3, A perforated measuring-Wrapper, Where- I LEWIS T. PEGK. 

